TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM ST. PAUL.

MILES

To St. Anthony

8 3/4

Rice Creek

7

15 3/4

St. Francis, or Rum River

9

25

Itasca

7

32

Elk River

6

38

Big Lake

10

48

Big Meadow (Sturgis)

18

66

St. Cloud (Sauk Rapids)

10

76

Watab

6

82

Little Rock

2

84

Platte River

12

96

Swan River

10

106

Little Falls

3

109

Belle Prairie

5

114

Fort Ripley

10

124

Crow Wing River

6

130

Sandy Lake

120

250

Savannah Portage

15

265

Across the Portage

5

270

Down Savannah River to St. Louis River

20

290

Fond-du-Lac

60

350

Lake Superior

22

372

Crow Wing River

130

Otter Tail Lake

70

200

Rice River

74

274

Sand Hills River

70

340

Grand Fork, Red River

40

380

Pembina

80

460

Sandy Lake

250

Leech Lake

150

400

Red Lake

80

480

Pembrina

150

630

Stillwater

18

Arcola

5

23

Marine Mills

6

29

Falls St. Croix

19

48

Pokagema

40

88

Fond-du-Lac

75

164

Red Rock

6

Point Douglass

24

Red Wing

Winona's Rock, Lake Pepin

30

60

Wabashaw

30

90

Prairie du Chien

145

235

Cassville

29

264

Peru

21

285

Dubuque

8

293

Mouth of Fever River

17

310

Rock Island

52

362

Burlington

135

497

Keokuk

53

550

St. Louis

179

729

Cairo

172

901

New Orleans

1040

1941

Mendota

7

Black Dog Village

4

Sixe's Village

21

Traverse des Sioux

50

Little Rock

45

Lac Qui Parle

80

Big Stone Lake

66

Fort Pierce, on Missouri

240

TABLE OF DISTANCES FROM ST. CLOUD.

To Minneapolis

62

Superior City, on Brott and Wilson's Road

120

Traverse des Sioux

70

Henderson

60

Fort Ridgley

100

Long Prairie

40

Otter Tail Lake

60

The Salt Springs

120

Fort Ripley

60

Mille Lac City

60

DISTANCES FROM CROW WING.

To Chippeway Mission

15

Ojibeway

50

Superior City

80

Otter Tail City

60

St. Cloud

55


PART IV.

PREEMPTION FOR CITY OR TOWN SITES.


PREEMPTION FOR CITY OR TOWN SITES.

AT a late moment, and while the volume is in press, I am enabled to present the following exposition of the Preemption Law, addressed to the Secretary of the Interior by Mr. Attorney-General Cushing. (See "Opinions of Attorneys General," vol. 7, 733-743— in press.)

PREEMPTION FOR CITY OR TOWN SITES.

Portions of the public lands, to the amount of three hundred and twenty acres, may be taken up by individuals or preemptioners for city or town sites.